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The new dimensions to straight away left (384 feet (117 m)) and left-center (398 feet (121 m)) make Oriole Park's left field the most spacious in the American League. However, the salient created by the bullpens results in an unusual sight on a modern baseball field—a reduction in dimensions as one moves from left field toward center field.
Smith directed the design of Baltimore's Oriole Park at Camden Yards which marked a new era of Major League Baseball parks. Camden Yards was the first of the "Retro Ballparks," and was unique in that it honored many qualities of ballparks from the classic era ballparks like Fenway Park and Wrigley Field, but also incorporated modern elements and building techniques to improve the overall fan ...
Diagram of the 1889 ballpark. The Orioles moved four blocks north and opened new Oriole Park, retroactively called Oriole Park II.The ballpark sat on a roughly rectangular block bounded by 10th Street (later renamed 29th Street) on the north and York Road (later Greenmount Avenue) on the east, 9th Street (later renamed 28th Street) was to the south, and Barclay Street on the west.
The 22,000-square-foot (2,044 m 2) museum, housed in the former Camden Station, was adjacent to the main gate of Oriole Park at Camden Yards and had artifacts and interactive exhibits profiling Maryland's sports history.
The Orioles arranged to take over the now-vacant property, Terrapin Park, and quickly renamed it the traditional name, Oriole Park (later retroactively labeled Oriole Park V). Of the new ballparks built by the "Feds", the longest-lasting has been Chicago's Wrigley Field , which was made of steel and concrete.
Oriole Park at Camden Yards [55] 1997* Jimmy Key: W 4–2: Kansas City Royals: Oriole Park at Camden Yards [56] 1998: Mike Mussina (4) L 1–4: Kansas City Royals: Oriole Park at Camden Yards [57] 1999: Mike Mussina (5) W 10–7: Tampa Bay Devil Rays: Oriole Park at Camden Yards [58] 2000: Mike Mussina (6) L 1–4: Cleveland Indians: Oriole ...
Oriole Park II: Baltimore Orioles (AA, 1890–1891) 1890 Now residential and commercial Union Park Oriole Park III: Baltimore Orioles (AA, 1891) Baltimore Orioles (NL, 1892–1899) 1891 Now a residential area. Oriole Park IV: Baltimore Orioles (AL, 1901–1902) 1901 1915 Terrapin Park Oriole Park V: Baltimore Terrapins (FL, 1914–1915) 1914 1944
Those 24 acres (10 ha) were purchased by the City of Los Angeles in 1966 for $400,000. [5] The city-owned property includes a Spanish-style adobe residence, extensive gardens, oak trees hundreds of years old, Dayton Creek, nature trails, fruit orchards, rose gardens, community garden plots, picnic tables and a multitude of exotic trees, plants ...